One for people like me who love to get the padding just right: Hold spacebar while dragging a screenshot area to reposition the upper-left corner of the drag area.
Wow, I had no idea about this one! Thanks so much for this tip!
macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
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#92Here is a key sequence I use very often. It takes a screenshot of a chosen window without the window's shadow. - First, type command + shift + 4 (the mouse pointer turns into crosshair). - Then type the space bar (the crosshair turns into a camera icon). - Hover the mouse pointer (a camera icon now), to highlight the chosen window. - Finally, hold the option key and click. This sounds like a lot of steps but it becom…
Add in the control key in the shortcut above and the screenshot will go to the clipboard instead of a file. Useful for pasting a screenshot into something like Messages or Slack.
Also there's no need to hold down Option when clicking. You can however hit Esc to cancel the screenshot action.
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#93Hold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.
Cmd-N in Preview to open a new window with the contents of your clipboard goes nicely with this.
Then in Preview you can hit cmd-shift-a to annotate the image. When you're done, cmd-a to select all, then paste wherever applicable. Nothing saved to disk!
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#94I dunno. I think the shadow looks good
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#95My workflow is take it, mark it up with Skitch if necessary, drop it in Slack or Trello and delete it.
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#96If you need to do any image manipulations/highlight on your screenshots, two of the best tools I found are: 1) Monosnap (freemium) - https://monosnap.com 2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.
Love Cleanshot! It’s so fast and snappy. A rare treat.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you want them to inform you other than RTFM and word of mouth? Do you want constant buttons on screen at all times for every possible OS-level functionality?
I didn't give any value judgement to it and I don't have any suggestions as I really haven't spent a lot of time on that problem space. If I become an OS developer I'll give that problem some thought. But the idea that Mac is somehow "intuitive" is laughable, IMO (I say that as someone who has used a wide variety of computer OSes since the 80s).
It's intuitive to do the basic stuff casual users need. If you want to go beyond that, you figure out how by doing some basic research. The OS isn't going to upload an entire reference manual into your brain as soon as you boot it for the first time.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you want them to inform you other than RTFM and word of mouth? Do you want constant buttons on screen at all times for every possible OS-level functionality?
are you not familiar with the concept of onboarding? Many websites and apps have this tour thing that highlight things that user haven't used, when appropriate.
The Mac does have onboarding, and it covers the basics. If it got into every single feature that someone calls "unintuitive," the onboarding would be 27 hours long
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That is literally the definition of "hidden behind a keyboard shortcut" - you have to be told or lookup CMD+Shift-5 before you can get to the full screenshot UI. Or more likely, new users search for "screenshot" in Spotlight the first few times, and if they do this enough maybe Google "mac screenshot shortcuts" (which leads them to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361 ).
That's fair, particularly the "Googling it" part. Still don't think it falls under "intuitive" - it's not something I'd just try or figure out without somehow looking it up.
For sure. I wonder if there’s a better solution short of a “Screenshot” key.